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Team formation 27 Nov 2023

All members of our team were chosen?

Our first informal meeting 29 Nov 2023

Around half of the team got together for an informal meeting over coffee to introduce themselves and get acquainted.

Our first formal meeting 6 Dec 2023

In our first meeting we chose themes that we were most interested in:

Food and nutrition

Diagnostics

Therapeutics

Personal health/women’s health

Drugs and drug delivery

We split into small groups to research these themes and come up with a list of ideas. We also discussed everyone’s skills and interests and their main motivation for joining iGEM and from there gained a better picture of who would be responsible for what aspect of the project.

Our second meeting 6 Dec 2023

A delegation from each subteam reported back on their findings and we built upon those ideas. Our PIs then informed us that the subteam model was not a good idea for the early stages, so the subteam model was dissolved, however we continued to build upon the ideas that we had already.

Bacterial Minicells for Drug Delivery i.e "Amphicells"

Synthetic Spider Silk

E-pili nanowires for Prosthetics

Soy Proteins for Drug Delivery

Crispr for Biofilm Prevention in Catheters

Prevention of BQCV (Black Queen Cell Virus) in bees

January

January was an exam period, so we were brainstorming ideas on our own and preparing for our exams

Tatiana has left the team 7 Feb 2024

No idea what to write here (we miss you so much)

February

14 Feb:

After arduous research and presentation to our supervisors, 3 finalists were chosen amongst these ideas:

Bacterial Minicells for drug delivery

Newly created combination of Synthetic silk and e-pili for silk-coated e-pili nanowires for prosthetics

Crispr for Biofilm Prevention in Catheters

21 Feb:

We met up to play the ultimate team building exercises, such as mafia and card games

1st week of March

1 March:

We posted recruitment flier to encourage other iGEM teams to collaborate on our project and we have created a possible first draft of our team’s mascot/logo.

Also, we created a link tree to all iGEM socials and we created our email account.

2 March:

All members of our team were allocated to the following teams: wet lab, dry lab, human practices and wiki development.

6 March:

We met up to take individual and group photos for our social media.

Specific roles were assigned for each team meber

Also, we came up with several project ideas: Arachnobacter, Cyber-SPili, Electro-Spili, spiderSENSE, E-rachnid and Silktronics,

2nd week of March

13 March:

We applied for iGEM mentorship

We had a meeting, where we decided on our project name "spiderSENSE" and chose our villages: